‘White woman's country’: Ethel Tawse Jollie and the making of White Rhodesia

Communism, Slavery and Social Policy: Investigating the Role of Worker Agency in the Development of Work-Injury Laws Globally

“…In societies using enslaved worker production in African colonies for example, existing laws did not recognize native Africans as 'workers' (Breznau and Lanver, 2020b). For example, the first risk-pooling laws in Zimbabwe in 1920 (Lowry, 1997) and South Africa in 1934(South Africa, 2007 did not apply to enslaved workers, therefore not all workers were covered even though it appears so as coded in the data.…”

The geopolitics of dependent development in Central Africa: race, class and the reciprocal blockade

“…Big business-linked Rhodesian Unionists may have won the referendum had Smuts promised a federal option, but 75 per cent of women voters supported the RGA, drawing parallels with newly-established Northern Ireland, rejecting absorption by what they regarded as a state under the thumb of dogmatic, clerical and misogynist republicans, ignoring the contradiction that only 51 Southern Rhodesian blacks had won the vote (Tawse Jollie, 1927: 193;Chanock, 1977: 160-61;Phimister, 1977Phimister, , 1984Lowry, 1997Lowry, , 2000Lowry, , 2010. Having only won the vote themselves in 1919, Tawse Jollie's vanguard of anti-Establishment, anti-Afrikaner nationalist, pro-Empire RGA women tipped the scales in favour of a new Rhodesian marcher state.…”

“…In theoretical terms, the CAF remains a labyrinth; the triangle-shaped UmtaliSalisbury-Plumtree railway corridor and fertile Mashonaland highveld, representing Tawse Jollie's 'white man's land' (Lowry, 1997) more semi-core than semiperipheral, flanked by an intermittently developed 'black' periphery in the rest of Southern Rhodesia, attached, in turn, to a loosely integrated tropical former shatterbelt -Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland -the latter barely having escaped famine in 1949. Economic restructuring, demographic change and institutional response would add to CAF complexity (Whittlesley, 1956).…”

The Limits of Potential: Race, Welfare, and the Interwar Extension of Child Emigration to Southern Rhodesia

“…50 The colony, for instance, had long maintained a capital requirement for incoming migrants in order to restrict the entry of European paupers, and in the mid-1920s the new state also started offering targeted land grants and other immigration incentives in an effort to augment its primarily lower-middle-class settler population with more elite newcomers. 51 Moreover, it took pains to counter the spread of the "poor white problem" that plagued neighboring South Africa by limiting Afrikaner immigration and investing heavily in settler education. Consequently, by 1930 Southern Rhodesia boasted one of the most advanced educational systems in the empire, offering every white child free secondary schooling, extensive university fellowships, and preparation for a range of careers.…”